Hamas forces back on streets as truce holds

Our message is clear: There'll be no place for outlaws, Hamas says

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Security forces loyal to Gaza's Hamas movement patrol a street in the central Gaza Strip. Masked Yellow Line behind which Israeli units operate to secure source of fire during clashes and explosions, and the security forces secured zone of fire.

(AFP)

Hamas security forces were tightening their grip on Gaza’s ruined cities yesterday even as global support mounted for a US-backed deal that would see them disarmed.

When busloads of prisoners freed from Israeli jails arrived in Gaza on Monday, fighters from Hamas’s Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades provided crowd control.